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2006-05-21 Home Front: WoT

Rumsfeld: Air Force cuts aimed at balancing cost, capabilities

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Posted by Sheling Unomons1998 2006-05-21 00:46|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 UAV UCAV = Less maint and support than manned aircraft. More emphasis on transport aircraft and ground support, via standoffs.

Those glory boys in the flight suits and fighters are expensive to maintain.

Dollars to Donuts says the UASF finally gives up and gives the A-10's to the Army, who has been wanting them all along, in order to save tihe fighter jocks.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-05-21 01:32|| 2006-05-21 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Who cares if an UAV crashes anyway? You need to think of them as (potentially) reusable cruise missiles.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-05-21 01:35|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-21 01:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey, Oldspook -- the Air Force already offered to give the A-10s to the Army back several years back. The Army choked when they realized the costs to maintain them.

BTW, the newer, lighter Army needs airpower more that ever, since they're giving up their artillery to go light. The Air Force provide the firepower offset.

Posted by Bob1 2006-05-21 22:43|| 2006-05-21 22:43|| Front Page Top

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